AN ANALYSIS OF RACISM FACED BY AIBILEEN AS A BLACK SERVANT ON KATHRYN STOCKET’S “THE HELP” FILM

Main Author: KUSUMAWARDANI, REFI ROSA
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2014
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  • Literature talks about the human’s life, and the human has different ways to express what they think. They also have different way to show their feelings, imaginations, and expressions. By reading the literature, we can discuss about many things, for example; talking about ourselves and others. It means that the literature deals with the human’s attitude, expression, problems, etc. The purposes of this study were explaining the racism faced by Aibileen as a black servant, describing the racism that faced by Aibileenas a black servant and Aibileen, and solving the racism as a black servant in “The Help” film. In conducting this study, the writer applied the descriptive qualitative.It was chosen by the researcher because it described the phenomena that exist in the film, and the data were collected in natural settings and in the form of word, rather than numbers and statistics. The researcher used humanism approach because it looked at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person who did the racism treatments. The research object was from “The Help” film which contained the dialogue, action and situation. Based on the result of data analysis, the racism faced Aibileen as a black servant in “The Help” film was individual racism because she was treated badly from the white person. The description of the racism faced by Aibileen were using the toilet tissue, getting the minimum salary, slandering the black servant as a thief.The solutions to solve the racism faced by Aibilieen are Aibileen brought her own toilet tissue, living as ordinary person, and stopped being a servant.